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Panathinaikos will compete against Porto on Wednesday (21.45, MEGA) for the 2^nd round of the Champions League. Giannis Kyrastas can imagine only the victory as a result. We must compete with the mentality we had at the first round. What I want is to enjoy the match. To play with discipline in order to win, highlighted the coach of the Greens. The coach of Porto believes that Panathinaikos is a team with quality.

The most appropriate person to talk about the match between Panathinaikos and Porto is Paulo Soouza. According to the star of the Greens, Panathinaikos has many alternatives at the offense, including Konstantinou, Lymperopoulos, Olisadebe, Warzycha, and Karagounis. However, Porto remains a dangerous rival because they have not won a championship for two years and they have strengthened their team. Soouza is happy to play against a Portuguese club because he will have the chance to fly back to Portugal. Paulo Soouza, talking to Portuguese reporters said, Panathinaikos has the advantage of playing at home. We played very well at all the matches of the first round. I wish the same for Wednesday.

Owen opened the score for Liverpool in the 27^th but Barcelona managed to reverse the score and to record a significant victory in Enfield Road, 1-3. Barcelona has turned to be the boss of Group B, since Roma and Galatasaray were equalised, 1-1, in Istanbul.

At the 1^st Group, Manchester United took advantage of the only interesting counter-attack they had, and they managed on target in the 74^th. However, Bayern reacted and they tied the match in the 87^th, 1-1. Boavista beat Nantes, 1-0, keeping on surprising.

Apart from the match of Panathinaikos against Porto, for Group C, Sparta Prague will face Real Madrid. At Group D, now, Deportivo La Coruna will host Arsenal, and Juventus will compete with Leverkusen.

Vassilis Gagatsis on behalf of the UFC, presented on Tuesday all the details for the request regarding the common organisation of Greece with Turkey for the European League of 2008. Thanassis Kanellopoulos, the Vice-President of UFC, stated that this organization is aiming to prove that Aegean might be the sea of peace, and he added, this event will contribute at the increase of tourism demand, it will develop more the commercial relations with Turkey, it will be considered as the continuation of the Olympic Games, and it will change the mentality by which people in Greece deal with football.

Takis Lemonis tried to alert his players. The team is above everybody and your success comes through the success of the team. A point that we should take care of is the fact that we create enough chances for goal but we do not score.

It has been estimated that Stelios Venetidis will not be away from the field more than a month. The player of Olympiakos has finished his medical examinations and he will be out of the hospital on Wednesday.

Aris insists on French choices. Tardue signed on Tuesday the contract with Aris and he will officially replace Henrie Michel. Further, if the club manages to get qualified to UEFA, the coach will extend his contract for another year. I want us to continue at the same pace, Tardue stated. Zachoudanis expressed his absolute trust to the new coach.

AEK will not face any serious problems at the match against Litex Lovech on Thursday for the 3^rd round of UEFA Cup. Vassilis Tsartas and Carlos Gamara surpassed the problems they had and they will take part at the match. AEK wants to achieve a secured score because the 2^nd leg match will be harder. The club is also expecting that the friends of the Yellows will appreciate their victories over Pananthinaikos and OFI, and they will fill the stadium.

The countdown of PAOK has started. The friends of the team from Thessaloniki get ready as well for the significant match against Eindhoven, which will be held on Thursday evening at Toumpa. Bajievic explained to his players the way of playing of the rival and he identified the strengths and weaknesses of the club from Netherlands. Egomitis will be available for the match, while Eindhoven is arriving at Thessaloniki with absents.

New efforts for Iraklis. The supporters of the club are getting prepared to become the source of power for their team. They are waiting for the following match-day for their revival.

A new website for Iraklis this time created by fans in Italy. It is a well-developed site covering all the sports that the club participates and they also promote the beliefs and the feelings of the stands of Iraklis.

At Chalkida is starting the new effort of the Greek national basketball team to return at the European elite of the sport. Moreover, the long-term of the team is their distinction at the Olympic Games of 2004. At Chalkida is also the second debut of Giannis Ioannidis as coach of the Greek team, who will start officially an effort that will last at least three years.

The Greek national team has gone already to Evoia for this historical match against Belgium (Wednesday, 19:15) with significant absences of Kakiouzis and Papanikolaou.

From the following Thursday, all the players of Perugia will be under restriction at the training sites of the club. According to the decision of the administration, which was announced by Luciano on Tuesday, nobody, including Zisis Vryzas, can go out from the training sites before achieving a victory.

Javier Sotomayor after his decision to complete his career as athlete is trying to find a new pace at his life. On the 13^th of October 2001, just one day before his birthday, the champion from Cuba announced that he would quit the field.

The World record-man talked to the Spanish newspaper MARCA about the law of life. It will take long time for me to get adapted to the new way of life. I have been training for long hours so many years. I should do many things about athletics in Cuba, in national and international level. I have already joined the National Committee of athletes, and I also attended the conference of IAAF at Moscow. Many people consider me as the ambassador of athletics of Cuba, highlighted Javier Sotomayor.

He is the favourite star of British! He attracts publicity and his personal life is always on the tabloids. We are not talking neither about an actor nor an artist. It is David Beckham, the chief of the national team of England, the player with the uniform number 7 at Manchester United, and the husband of Victoria Adams from Spice Girls!

David Beckham seems to have found the formula of being the top football player that knows the codes of the star system and he plays with them. The ace of Manchester, who is only 26 years old, is one of the candidates for the Golden Ball. However, his dream is the trophy of the World Cup.

Kostas Petropoulos is back to known areas. Two years later the ex-national coach has returned to Maroussi. The administration of Maroussi B.C. announced on Tuesday morning the hiring of the coach. The team has future, stated Petropoulos, who had led the team at the 8^th position at the period 1998-99.